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Unphysical source of dynamic order for the natural world

The well-defined but intricate course of time evolution exhibited by many naturally occurring phenomena suggests some source of dynamic order sustaining it. In spite of its obviousness as a problem, it has remained absent from the scientific debate due to the lack of candidates for a proper answer. Here we propose a general explanation based on the oscillatory possibilities of the dynamical systems, as demonstrated with a family of differential equations exhibiting self-sustained oscillations of unbounded complexity: complex evolutions by nonlinear mixing of an arbitrarily large number of oscillation modes, in which the different modes describe specific dynamical activities and their combination articulates the interactive conjunction of such activities into the whole functioning. The dynamical scenario is rather generic since it is exclusively based on the reiterative occurrence of the two most standard mechanisms of nonlinear dynamics: the saddle-node and Hopf bifurcations, and its extraordinary richness makes feasible the well-defined occurrence of ordered features over enormously complex dynamical activities as simply arising from the proper structure of dynamical relations among the system components, i.e., without requiring any other physical cause than those involved in such relations.